The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 17
So forth the Brothers rode, while high o’erhead Through that primeval forest’s woven screen Now in long lanes the sky its radiance shed, And now in purple stars of splendour keen; Nor far behind them marched the Usnach clan, Loud singing and on trampling like one man.
Who acts: Brothers, Nor · What happens: ride, weave, march · To what, where: high o’erhead, long lanes, Usnach clan
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brothers, Nor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 forth | advmod |
| 2 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 rode | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Brothers | det |
| 4 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 o’erhead | mark |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 o’erhead | amod |
| 9 | o’erhead | o'erhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | xcomp |
| 10 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 16 screen | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 forest | det |
| 12 | primeval | primeval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forest | compound |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 screen | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 15 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 screen | amod |
| 16 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 o’erhead | nmod |
| 17 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 rode | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 lanes | case |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lanes | amod |
| 20 | lanes | lane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rode | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sky | det |
| 22 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 shed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | radiance | radiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shed | compound |
| 25 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stars | punct |
| 27 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 stars | cc |
| 28 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 stars | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 stars | case |
| 30 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 stars | amod |
| 31 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rode | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 keen | case |
| 33 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 keen | compound |
| 34 | keen | keen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stars | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 marched | punct |
| 36 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 marched | nsubj |
| 37 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 them | advmod |
| 38 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 39 them | case |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 Nor | nmod |
| 40 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 clan | det |
| 42 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 clan | compound |
| 43 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 marched | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 singing | punct |
| 45 | Loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 singing | amod |
| 46 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 clan | conj |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 trampling | cc |
| 48 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 trampling | case |
| 49 | trampling | trampling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 singing | conj |
| 50 | like | like | ADP | _ | 52 man | case |
| 51 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 52 man | nummod |
| 52 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 marched | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the Brothers | high o’erhead through that primeval forest's woven screen | long lanes | now | in purple stars of splendour keen; the sky obl; sky's radiance shed nsubj; forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |
| 2 | weave | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | march | past | Nor behind Brothers | the Usnach clan and Loud singing and trampling | like one man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme clan=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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